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Tom doesn't people not showing up also help trump too?
It's ridiculous people would get fired over this if they want to strike but it would take a case all the way to the Republican supported supreme court for the workers to kill the rule of law they can't not strike and that case likely won't be heard until 10years from now if someone was to even make it to the highest court. So they are fucked either way.

You have an organization that is full of hard-to-fire employees, who are protected by laws that prevent the time-wasting pikers and paper-pushers from being laid off. How do you flush these people out?

Easy, you do exactly what is happening now.

Most government workers, (I should know, I was one at one point), are complete time-wasters, running out the clock and doing the bare minimum to keep the checks rolling in. Some are so completely attached to their departments (via hires of friends, associates, office power plays) that they don't even have to show up for a full days' work. Look at that DMV worker in California that was known to sleep on the job, but they kept her anyway - wasting thousands of taxpayer dollars.

Government pay may not be the highest (unless you're way up there on the GS-13+ scale), but the job security is unparalleled, in addition to other benefits like federal credit union memberships, and labor unions in some cases.

This is simply the massive starve-out of all the bureaucratic parasites that inflate budgets and produce nothing. Do innocent people get hurt? Yes, they do. I don't agree with this strategy -- but I see what is going on.

The loyal and desperate will stay, the lazy and ineffective idiots will leave.

Also, how these people don't have at least a MONTH saved up for expenses is fucking nuts. Who is an adult and operates that way?